WLANSvc and Ping Spikes
Vulgrin
wireless network card. and have been having a problem that manifested
itself in online gaming (Counterstrike Source and Half-Life DM
specifically) but has also cropped up in Remote Desktop.
The symptoms are that when I am playing, every minute or so I get a
burst of lag, which clears up in about 2-3 seconds. Obviously this is
incredibly annoying and makes it unusable. I've done all sorts of
things, including trying several different drivers, and two different
cards - all with the same results.
After some major googling, I think I have found the culprit, but can
find no way to fix it: the WLAN Autoconfig service is pinging every 60
seconds to try to find wireless networks in my vicinity. I confirmed
this by doing a ping -t to my router, and sure enough every 60 seconds
on the nose I see a <1ms ping turn into a 800-1300ms ping.
Unfortunately, I don't believe there is any network configuration
software for my cards (dlink and netgear) so if I shut off the
service, I lose the network. I tried to shut off just the autoconfig
portion in the command line (using netsh wlan) and then setting up the
network manually with my SSID, but it still won't connect without the
autoconfig on.
I've poked about in the registry as well, and found several keys for
this service relating to the "Scan Interval" but changes to these
settings don't seem to make any difference, and I can't find any
documentation on them.
How do I either get around this, or set up a much higher interval so
that its not happening every minute? This is a desktop PC, so I don't
really need to be looking for other networks... and it seems
ridiculous that I can't shut that portion off...
Thanks